Lyra_Lycan
@Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
She/Her - Was bullied off reddit by mean moderators, but it’s a corporation anyway - 🏳️⚧️omni, heart - Pro kindness|gressiveness, Anti cruelty|bullshit.
- Comment on Person of the Century 2 days ago:
- Comment on A comprehensive absolut beginner's guide 4 days ago:
I know Jellyfin/Emby is compatible with musuc, but I’m advising you now to not try and cram all your media in one software. I recommend Navidrome as a music hoster. The con is that I haven’t written a guide for it, as I run Proxmox it was almost too easy to need one.
As you’re just starting out I’d recommend picking any Linux distro, putting the ISO on a USB drive and booting the server machine from it to install. Well, you know how to install an OS. Next, install Navidrome (guide) via the Linux or Docker guides, modify the config file to point to your music folder and change any setting you like, for example the port, and run it via systemctl or docker.
After that, login via browser with the given admin creds, make a user account for you and anyone else, install slskd for downloading and beets for correctly organising into the music directory, set up a reverse proxy to point to the Navidrome UI or connect via IP from any Subsonic client.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 week ago:
But browsers have a marker for dangerous sites - surely Cloudflare, Amazon or Google should have a report system and deliver warnings at the base
- Comment on Corvid-19 1 week ago:
#JustHowl’sMovingCastleThings
Seriously though, Howl is a very dateable crow - Comment on YSK : The Hagenah sunk a ship carrying Jewish refugees resulting 252 Jewish passenger death despite experts warning 1 week ago:
Better dead than Gentile, eh. Fuck Israel
- Comment on YSK about SearXNG - an open metasearch engine 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if routing it through FlareSolverr isn’t a solution.
- Comment on Finding a private self hosted Google Photos alternative that doesn’t profit from my photos 2 weeks ago:
What do you use for 3-2-1? I try, so far I have my phone, backed up to a server HDD via SMB (Too poor for RAID-1 atm), and the very important stuff sent to a USB drive. Am I doing it right haha
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
'Member when all insane folk had to ramble to was the wall of their abode, perhaps a leashed parsnip? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Pepperidge Farm is alive today because of a discount Justin Timberlake.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 3 weeks ago:
Right? My one has developed a nasty case of defective WiFi/Bluetooth chip. I’m convinced it’s a superficial, intentional break.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 4 weeks ago:
Aside from being hella slow, I just don’t like that it can’t use the same directories as my network shares and requires uploading. This script might help but honestly I just stick to the basic shares because of this
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 4 weeks ago:
From my experience using a mailserver with no PTR and an ISP who likes to put their addresses on a PBL, it’s very good. Gmail tends to be the most annoying and wants that PBL listing removed or you’ll go to spam for new recipients, but other than that 10/10. I’d be interested to hear what your findings are if you do test it!
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 4 weeks ago:
Get yourself a Sonoff ZigBee bridge! Hue light support is practically native, and they act as extenders to reach your other ZigBee devices! Just don’t expect to be able to sync them with any movies or peripherals. I think there is a virtual Hue bridge on HACS and that might help with that, but idk
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 4 weeks ago:
Smooth sailing for me too, shockingly. I’ve recently added my 26th service to Proxmox - LibreELEC (Kodi), with the very complex matter of monitor passthrough. It’s such a versatile program and it has replaced my Chromecast with more features and side bonuses than I could’ve imagined. Another huge step towards degoogling.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 4 weeks ago:
Nice… I use ytdl-sub for downloading music, highly recommend it. Running it as a user whose primary group matches Jellyfin is a must if you want stuff saved next to the video files… The dev is also very active.
I just installed Ollama and use gemma3 to now. I wanted to use dolphin-mixtral but holy crap it wants more RAM than my entire setup
- Comment on Looking for a selfhostable chat service that people on phone and computers can log onto 4 weeks ago:
Snikket is great. I liked my choice of Prosody with Monocles and Gajim for server, Android and Windows/Linux, respectively
- Comment on Looking for a selfhostable chat service that people on phone and computers can log onto 4 weeks ago:
XMPP for my attempt just worked, voice and video calling too. The Android clients Monocles, Cheogram and Conversations are great, as for desktop they all look like 90’s messaging clients haha
I ultimately switched to Matrix because the encryption key sharing is much more friendly, at least for helping non-enthusiasts use it, and I didn’t realise I could decrypt old XMPP messages for new clients by transferring them manually, but at least Element Web is nice. It has flaws, definitely - on Android I find myself using Element Classic for creating unencrypted rooms and voice/video calling using my TURN server, and Element X for general messaging, caption and Markdown support. That’s another thing - for me the Element clients are the closest to being usable, the few others are borked.
In short XMPP is ugly but functional, and the client devs try their best, and Matrix is enticing but, as you said, finicky. Element is pretty but their new client that promises full e2ee for calling hasn’t reached a level I would consider out of Beta yet.
- Comment on It's Fun For The Whole Family 4 weeks ago:
Or the Truth Social theme to root out pedophiles
- Comment on Pansexuality 4 weeks ago:
Only the ones with holes big enough to fit my dick
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 5 weeks ago:
You know, I have purchased around 200 games. I have no idea how many of those can be mine because they’re linked to a store, maintained (usually) by a corporation hellbent on optimised profits, subject to mandatory updates so I have no choice but to play the way they want me to, and I don’t have the space to store them all. I don’t feel like any of them are really safe, not until they’re transferred to an offline machine.
- Comment on What's happened from July to September 2025 that might make people Google "Worst timeline"? 5 weeks ago:
Ty. For what it’s worth I agree with Gemini; I believe it’s the existence of multiple ethically horrible events that cause someone to feel like this is the worst timeline. It was able to find and summarise all large-scale current events that have been reported internationally, and formulate it into a better response than I could’ve in under an hour. I would’ve missed something, or undervalued another thing.
- Comment on What's happened from July to September 2025 that might make people Google "Worst timeline"? 5 weeks ago:
Seeking help isn’t contempt; providing some information is useful.
- Gemini
- Comment on What's happened from July to September 2025 that might make people Google "Worst timeline"? 5 weeks ago:
AI Overview
People might have Googled “Worst timeline” from July to September 2025 due to a combination of severe and compounding global crises, including major humanitarian crises, a series of devastating natural disasters, significant geopolitical instability, and widespread dissatisfaction with the state of the internet and search engines.Humanitarian and Conflict Crises
- Gaza War Escalation: The humanitarian situation in Gaza reached catastrophic levels, with reports from the UN and aid agencies in July and September confirming widespread starvation and mounting evidence of famine, leading to significant global outrage and diplomatic shifts. A UN report in September went on to state that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza.
- Worsening Global Conflicts: The Sudanese civil war, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a gang war in Haiti, which saw gangs take control of over 90% of the capital, all continued or escalated during this period, causing immense suffering and instability. Mass Casualties in Pakistan and Iraq: A fire in an Iraqi hypermarket killed at least 61 people in July, and monsoons killed at least 63 in Punjab, Pakistan. A building collapse in Karachi later that month killed 27. Natural Disasters and Climate Events
- Extreme Weather Events: A deadly heatwave hit Europe in early July, and flash floods in Central Texas killed over 100 people. Severe monsoon rains and landslides also caused numerous deaths and widespread damage in India and South Korea throughout July and September.
- Devastating Earthquakes: In September, a 6.0 magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan killed at least 2,200 people, with a second strong quake the following day interrupting rescue efforts. Geopolitical and Societal Instability
- Political Turmoil: Donald Trump’s administration faced numerous domestic and international challenges, including an unproven claim linking autism to a common pain killer, the indefinite suspension of air defense and weapon shipments to Ukraine, and a controversial increase in military presence and a subsequent military strike near Venezuela, which drew international condemnation.
- Global Diplomatic Shifts: Several Western countries, including Belgium, Australia, Britain, Canada, and Portugal, announced their support for Palestinian statehood, leading to strong reactions from Israel and heightened diplomatic tensions.
- Internet and Technology Frustrations: Many users found Google search results to be significantly worse in 2025, saturated with AI-generated content, aggressive ads, and clickbait, making it harder to find reliable information. Google also rolled out two significant, messy algorithm and spam updates during this time, frustrating website owners.
These interconnected events created a pervasive sense of global crisis and unpredictability, making the search query “Worst timeline” a likely expression of public sentiment.
- Comment on Looking for controller recommendations 1 month ago:
I don’t have any small form factor recommendations, but I can recommend - if you’re comfortable going AliBaba/AliExpress - the Ípega brand. It’s about £10, requires an app to configure, but extremely long-life battery and switchable modes. But the best controller for the rare few mobile games that support controller input natively is an Xbox One… one
- Comment on how do you explain selfhosting to the non-techies in your life? 1 month ago:
This. Why pay £6/m when, with self-hosting a Samba/NFS/NextCloud instance as part of 20 other services, I pay ~£6 a year. (Might increase drastically with Ollama or SearXNG and a GPU, but still a fraction of the corporate cost)
- Comment on PC Master Race 1 month ago:
Good, but nowadays the gap is more $800/$3000.
My console from 2020 runs games about the same as PC hardware from 2018. If you built a 2018 spec PC today it would beat the Xbox Series X and PS5, but unlike the consoles, PC components have reduced in price.
Which means the gap with available hardware and matched SSD size would be $650 to $900
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 1 month ago:
I used Ghost Spectre once and it was great, but was scared off it by frequent mentions online of other security flaws with prebuilt ISOs, the same potential risks as any closed-source and unregulated software. I never saw issues, just got fearmongered out of it
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 1 month ago:
Can confirm, I still own an i7-7700k. Pretty much all 77xx variants were on the compatibility list but mine wasn’t. Weird thing, though (sarcasm), I used the standard Win11 Install Media to install, and it did so with no problems! Funny, that.
Occasionally it threw a fit with the Office apps my partner needed to use (the standard for the university and LibreOffice’s docx, xlsx format is not compatible with M$), all it did was refuse login due to lack of TPM2.0, but this only happened after the 24H3 update or whatever it’s called
(All this is moot for me now as I switched to Arch Linux)
- Comment on New World will stop receiving updates following Amazon layoffs 1 month ago:
Nobody should’ve bought games published by Amazon in the first place
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
addr.toLowerCase().replace(’ ‘,’')
- Comment on Us ❤️ 1 month ago:
